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THIS IS A BIG DEAL. This is the most egregious and dangerous thing Kennedy has done yet to remove access to #vaccines. (It’s also what that I & many others explicitly predicted & feared before he was confirmed.) He can now fill this CDC committee w anti-vaccine people. 1/n apnews.com/article/kenn...

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One swallow will soon a summer make 😔 www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

It's a mystery to me why apparently principled people with a huge following on X remain there. Maybe they've convinced themselves that that's where the battles will be won?

🎧I'm traveling on Thurs, so I'll be doing my weekly radio show, Professor G's Musical Odyssey, TOMORROW, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org, 88.7 FM I'll spin new albums from Alabaster DePlume, Nadah El Shazly, Trio Mokili, Coffin Prick, Mekons, & Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Tune in! I take requests & do shout-outs!

Gwynne Dyer - one of my favourite authors. Intervention Earth is brilliant! gwynnedyer.com/books/

Ocean acidification’s 'planetary boundary' was reached about five years ago, according to a new study by PML, NOAA, etc.! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Eminent Amazonian scientist Philip Fearnside eloquently gives the many compelling arguments why Brazil should abandon its plans for new oil and gas development in Amazônia. Above all to protect Brazil itself from the ravages of fossil fuel driven warming news.mongabay.com/2025/06/why-...

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

Unions don’t just fight for wages – we fight for justice. When ICE arrested David Huerta, they didn’t just attack one leader. They attacked the entire movement. This is solidarity. This is our moment. #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemAll

Why would any self respecting UK parliamentarian want to impose Trump-style anything? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

You can't make up the genocidal hypocrisy of the Israeli government. And governments continue to support Israel, trade with Israel, and fail to sanction Israel,... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The demands, if successful, would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits" WTAF?? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"The order...will intensify tensions between the Trump administration and California". Except that it's not 'California' on the streets, it's people. The tension is between Trump and a caring but seriously pissed off population. on.ft.com/4kqUF1L

"In part one of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss how trust in the postwar world economic system is being lost and weigh the costs and consequences". on.ft.com/3FuG7z3

1🧵We are grateful to @TheLancet for showing climate leadership by extending its ethical advertising ban to the banks funding the fossil fuel crisis. It is time for all medical organisations to divest their banking and investments away from climate destroying infrastructure.

Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget bill that would amount to one of the greatest transfers of wealth from the working poor to the super rich. And two billionaire oligarchs are fighting about it because the bill doesn't cut vital social programs enough. Hello?

While I'm on a job vacancies roll, here are two #globalhealth related jobs with @msf.org unjobs.org/vacancies/17...

Dream job for a lot of people, I would imagine! Headed up by a lovely guy Professor Niheer Dasandi. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

2 year Lecturership in #globalhealth at Kings. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117125-...

So much in this post - 'Day 250' - is heart breaking. But it was the note that "9000-plus Palestinians prisoners [are] on hunger strike in Israel now" which particularly struck me. I hope Laila lives to see her son released.

Hey anyone want to be part of a BlueSky truth squad next week when Jay Bhattacharya testifies before Congress? Would mean live-skeeting the hearings. DM if interested so we can coordinate. #NIH #Science #MedSky #EpiSky

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bad leadership is rarely solely an individual activity. It is usually supported, scaffolded, emulated, promulgated, distributed, impacting at every level of an organisation. Undoing it is equal parts archaeology, surgery and demolition.

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I distinctly remember a Prof. reassuring me earlier this year: 'Don't worry, give them a few months and they'll be at each others' throats'. Profs, eh. Big brains.

Since we have so many new friends here (hiiiiii 👋🏽), it feels like a good time to remind you of how Bookshop.org works! We’re a ✨better✨ way to buy books online where every purchase financially supports independent bookstores. Awesome, right? Here’s how:

Wow this is big news: Vietnam to launch universal FREE health care totally funded by the state news.tuoitre.vn/vietnams-hea...

This is an insane perversion of the powers entrusted to a president. What law did those students break? How exactly do they threaten national security? If a president allowed to lawlessly destroy any private institution he hates, United States democracy has ended. Take action to save it.

"Having entered the market Carlson was “thrilled” to have Kennedy use his product, he adds. “He’s the best possible brand ambassador. I can’t think of a better one, honestly, considering he is the top public health authority in the United States.”" on.ft.com/4kOTitk

14 UN Security Council votes in favour of a cease-fire; 1 (veto) against. The U.S. deserves the status of a pariah state. U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Demanding Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

"We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that"